American Express reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(18,660 total reviews)
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Stephen J Squeri

89% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

American Express has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 18,660 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The American Express employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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19K reviews
3.0
Jul 4, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

- Respect for Work/Life Balance - Premium Brand for the ole Resume - Opportunities to move around and follow your passions

Cons

- Professional pedigree of many colleagues leaves a lot to be desired - Low end of pay scale, particularly for NYC - Zero perks - I know the recession may have something to do with this, but can a brother get an free bagel or water bottle every now and again? Just sayin....

3.0
Jun 30, 2011

Great brand you can feel good about

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great brand & the company has really embraced innovation within the last few years.

Cons

Can be a passive agressive culture and relationships can trump actual performance

5.0
Jun 20, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Amex is a very flexible organization. There is a high error tolerance, i.e. I could take initiative and risk to make mistakes, if it worked: fine, if not, you learn from it, and: fine as well - a learning organization. Amex is very efficiency-driven and often very efficient and focussed. Very open about compensation/salaries, in general very open communication, rather direct style. I enjoyed working there.

Cons

lacking operational controls, efficiency sometimes overrules sound operational risk management. sometimes slow or insufficient to implement regulatory requirements, this lack of sound, effective & working procedures requires heroes to save the organization (see Pros).

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